History of C Programming Language
To overcome the problems of languages such as B and BCPL, Dennis Ritchie from The United States of America developed the C language in 1972.
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie, he was born on 9th September 1941. Ritchie invented two great inventions, the C programming language, and Unix operating system. he also co-authored a book “The C Programming Language”.
C is used for creating system applications. Implementation of system software was designed by C language. It is a case-sensitive programming language.
Dennis Ritchie further was referred to as “The Father of Modern Programming Languages”.
C is a simple programming language in the history of computing programming language. It is structure-oriented. Nowadays, many programming languages have arrived with many features like C++, Python, Java, and more but C is a base of any language.
Initially, C was developed to be used in UNIX operating system, but nowadays its compatibility has grown a lot ranging from windows, Mac, Linux, Ubuntu, and others. Many of the important working principles of C comes from BCPL, developed by Martin Richards, although B, BCLP is typeless languages C provides a number of different data types.
C Programming history:-
- In 1960, ALGOL was developed by the international group.
- In 1966, Martin Richards developed BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language before developing C.
- Later, Ken Thomson further developed BCPL by developing the first letter of BCPL i.e. he developed the B language.
- Ken Thomson developed the BASIC type of UNIX Operating System, while the B language was in motion.
- After all this, by further developing the B language, Dennis Ritchie developed the C language in the Bell laboratory.
- After developing the C language, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson together developed the UNIX Operating System.
In 1978, Kerni Ghan and Ritchie both did further improvement in the C language and they brought the C programming language in front of the whole world.
In 1989, ANSI C was developed by the ANSI Committee.
In 1999, The new version of C was developed, In which have new features like Data Types- char, float, int, double were used.
Today’s we are using the new version of C is C11, which is developed by Standard Committee.
A detailed description of the above program is given in the next chapters.
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